Emily Mortimer

Cars 2

Uninspired sequel fails to keep the Pixar engine running

13 Jul 2011

(U) 112min After 25 years of animation production and a run of critical and commercial smash-hits, the super-smooth Pixar production line finally blows a gasket with Cars 2, a colourful but overstuffed, noisy and heartless sequel that feels more like…

Emily Mortimer scared of surgery

Celebrity Gossip

10 Jul 2010

Emily Mortimer thinks plastic surgery "f***s with your head". The 'Shutter Island' star - who has two children with her actor husband Alessandro Nivola - confesses she would "love" to look 15 years younger, but doesn't think she would be able to cope…

Emily Mortimer's shampoo shame

Celebrity Gossip

4 Jan 2009

Emily Mortimer uses dry shampoo because she hates washing her hair. The 'Match Point' actress - who is married to actor Alessandro Nivola - admits she does everything she can to avoid cleansing her locks. She said: "I'm very unhealthy. I hardly…

Lars and the Real Girl

13 Mar 2008

DRAMA (12A) 106min If, as the American columnist and poet Don Marquis noted, ‘fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in bad clothes’, then he should try a few hours in the sub zero Wisconsin town where Lars Lindstrom (Ryan Gosling) lives.

Lars and the Real Doll - interview with Emily Mortimer

Glasgow Film Festival

14 Feb 2008

Emily Mortimer is laughing. ‘Bianca’s a very subtle actress and incredibly modest. She sits quietly, she waits. She doesn’t pace around, throw hissy fits or demand things. And her performance is incredibly low key.’ Bianca is Mortimer’s Danish/Brazilian…

Paris, Je T'Aime

19 Jun 2007

SHORT FILM ANTHOLOGY For this portmanteau work, 21 directors from around the world have contributed five-minute shorts, which are set in 18 of Paris’ administrative districts. The project was intended as a cinematic valentine to the French capital…